U.S. Dual Credit Decker Ch. 29-34
By the end of World War 2, how many women had entered the work force?
6,000,000
The Lonely Crowd was written by
David Riesman
The American painter whose work showed isolated melancholy and anonymous individuals was
Edward Hopper
In the election of 1952,
Eisenhower won five states in the outer South
The person usually credited with formulating the policy of containment was
George F. Kennan
All the following were Beats except
George Meany
Following the Allied victory in Sicily,
Italy joined the Allies.
The author of Catcher in the Rye was
J.D. Salinger
In the "China tangle," the United States sent $2 billion in aid to fight
Mao Tse-tung
William Burroughs wrote
Naked Lunch
Invisible Man, the novel that developed the theme of loneliness from the black perspective, was written by
Ralph Ellison
Which of the following statements about the postwar years in not true?
The so-called Sunbelt became the most densely populated area.
In the presidential election of 1944,
Thomas Dewey was the Republican candidate.
The "W" in WAC stands for
Women's
The War in Korea
began in 1950, when North Korean forces invaded South Korea.
According to Life magazine, the proper role for women the 1950's was
being a good mother and wife
The bracero program
brought some 200,000 Mexican farm workers into the western United States.
V-E Day
celebrated the defeat of Germany.
Automobile production in the 1950's
increased
Eisenhower's administration extended the reach of the New Deal through all the following except
increasing federal expenditures for health care and low-income housing
Harry Truman
is correctly represented by all the above statements.
The baby boom
is correctly represented by all the above statements.
The new strategy used in the Pacific in 1943 was to
isolate the Japanese strongholds, leaving them to "die on the vine."
All the following factors promoted the growth of suburbs except
laws forbidding residential segregation by races
President Roosevelt died
less than a month before the surrender of Germany.
The Twenty-second Amendment, the first ratified after World War 2,
limited presidents to two terms
The Warren Court
limited several internal security measures
Following their quick sweep across France, the Allies
lost momentum in the fall of 1944
To ensure that the Soviet Union would join the war against Japan, Roosevelt in 1945
made certain secret agreements concerning Soviet territorial demands.
Between 1945 and 1960, the Gross National Product (GNP)
nearly doubled
In the first two months of American involvement in World War 2,
news from the Pacific was "all bad," according to President Roosevelt.
The domestic program that Harry Truman sent to Congress in September 1945
proposed to continue and enlarge the New Deal.
The emphasis of the religious revivals of the 1950's was on
psychological security and happiness.
According to Reinhold Neibuhr,
the popular religion of the 1950;s was inadequate to cure the ills of society.
Which of the following decreased in the postwar years?
the portion of income that Americans saved (rather than spent)
When railroad workers stages a strike shortly after the end of the war, President Truman
threatened to draft strikers into the armed forces
The average American real income in 1955, compared to that of just before the crash of 1929, was
twice as much
In response to a Soviet blockade of West Berlin, Truman
used a massive airlift to supply the city.
The "outer-directed" personality
valued popularity more than independence
Joseph McCarthy
was "condemned" by the Senate for contempt of that body
Black participation in the armed forces
was mainly in segregated units.
The Battle of Okinawa
was most significant for wearing down the remaining Japanese defenses.
John Foster Dulles argued that the policy of containment
was needlessly defensive
The North Atlantic Treaty
was originally signed by twelve nations
The McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950
was passed over Truman's veto.
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
was the largest naval engagement in history.
The development of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima
was the responsibility of the Manhattan Project.
The Battle of Midway
was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
The Robe and Exodus
were best-sellers in the 1950's
The United States entered the Korean War
without a declaration of war by Congress
With of the following was not a permanent member of Security Council of the United Nations
Japan
The term "brinksmanship" is associated with
John Foster Dulles
Dwight D. Eisenhower grew up in
Kansas
The fastest-growing new periodical in the 1950's was
TV Guide
Joseph McCarthy
accused George C. Marshall of disloyalty.
The French Vichy government
collaborated with the Germans.
Eisenhower's "domestic conservatism" inculded all the following except
cutting support for the Interstate Highways
The purpose of the War Production Board was to
direct industrial conversion to war production.
During the 1950's,
economic safe guards from the New Deal assured most Americans
According to David Riesman, Dr. Spock's book on child care
encouraged parents to develop the "gregarious" talents of their children
Following the election of 1948, Truman was able to push through Congresss
farm price supports, a public housing program, and more money for the TVA and rural electrification
The Yalta Conference
gave the Soviet Union control of eastern Germany.
Which of the following statements about the original Levittown is not true?
Children were not allowed until after 1963.
In its first application of the Truman Doctrine, Congress approved economic aid to
Greece and Turkey
The meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to plan an invasion of France and a simultaneous Soviet offensive took place in
Teheran.
Which book argued that sustained economic growth would not in itself solve America's chronic social problems?
The Affluent Society
Which of the following was not a major stimulant to the post-1945 economy?
The movement of women into the workforce
The Crack in the Picture Window
argued that suburbanites were living in a "homogenous, postwar Hell"
Truman removed General Douglas MacArthur
because MacArthur openly criticized the president for not wanting to fight Red China.
By the end of the Truman years, the United States had
become committed to a major and permanent national military establishment.
In order to end the deadlock in the Korean peace talks, Eisenhower
hinted that the United States might use atomic weapons
War Relocation Camps
housed over 100,000 Japanese Americans during the war.
President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill finally agreed to strike first
in North Africa.
Price controls
were phased out shortly after the war ended
Which of the following did not increase in the postwar years?
substandard housings
Truman clashed with congressional Republicans over
tax cuts
Operation "Overlord" was
the D-Day invasion at Normandy.
The area that experienced the fastest rate of urban growth during the war years was
the Far West.
Willy Loman
was a character in Death of a Salesman.
The "corporate character" of American life, as described in this chapter,
was an increasingly regimented conformity
In the election of 1948,
Democrats won majorities in both houses of Congress in addition to winning the White House.
The Taft-Hartley Act
was generally a setback for labor
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
were executed for supposedly giving the Soviets the secret to the atomic bomb.
The Japanese surrender
allowed the emperor to keep his throne under the authority of an Allied supreme commander.
In response to a proposed march on Washington in 1941, President Roosevelt issued an executive order
prohibiting racial discrimination in defense work.
America's racial relations were transformed during the 1940's becaue
racial discrimination in the hiring of federal employees was banned.
The National Security Council in 1950 recommended
rebuilding America's conventional military forces.
When Jewish leaders proclaimed the independent state of Israel in 1948, the United States
recognized the new state immediately.
Among the factors that cushioned the economic impact of demobilization after World War 2 were all the following except
reductions in business investments.
East Germany was controlled after World War 2 by
the Soviet Union
When the advancing Soviet front reached Poland in 1944,
the Soviets installed a puppet government.
By 1950,
the army had less than 10 percent of the number of men it had had at its peak in World War 2
The National Security Act was passed as a response to
the success of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
The Marshall Plan
was "directed not against country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos."
James F. Byrnes
was Truman's first secretary of state
The Beats
were, like the abstract expressionists, motivated by a desire to liberate self-expression
A major proponent of the technique of "action painting"-- the artist trying to "literally be in the painting"-- was
Jackson Pollock
Native Americans Supported the War by
all of the above.
The cost of World War 2,
included some 50 million military and civilian dead.
Of the following, the single biggest source of government financing for America's war effort was
increased federal taxes.